Grain silo location-allocation problem with dwell time for optimization of food grain supply chain network

Authors
Mogale, DG 
Kumar, SK 
Tiwari, MK 

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Abstract

In the last few decades, production and procurement of food grain in India have steadily increased, however, storage capacity has not increased proportionally. The government of India (GOI) is establishing the various capacitated silos across the country to bridge this storage capacity gap. This paper presents a novel integrated multi-objective, multi-modal and multiperiod mathematical model for grain silo location-allocation problem with Dwell time to support the decision-making process of GOI. Two conflicting objectives- minimization of total supply chain network cost and total lead time (transit and dwell time) are simultaneously optimized using two Pareto based multi-objective algorithms with calibrated parameters.

Publication Date
2018
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Acceptance Date
2018-01-04
Keywords
Facility location-allocation problem, Multi-objective optimization, Mixed integer non-linear programming, Food grain supply chain, Non-dominated sorting chemical reaction optimization (NCRO)
Journal Title
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Journal ISSN
1366-5545
Volume Title
111
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
British Council in India (UKUTP201100194)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K02888X/1)